Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy
Book Details
- Publisher : Palgrave
- Published : 2007
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 25599
- ISBN 13 : 9780333946510
- ISBN 10 : 0333946510
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Historical Outline of Psychosomatic Medicine
The Scope for Psychotherapy in Psychosomatic Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Technique
The Effects of Stress
Somatization: the Somatoform Disorders
The Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
Obesity
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Skin Disorders
Cardiovascular Disorders
Respiratory Disorders
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Headache
Psychosomatic Aspects of Gynaecology
Psychosomatic Approaches to Cancer
Developing a Psychosomatic Imagination
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Author Biography
DR PETER SHOENBERG is a consultant psychotherapist at University College Hospital, London, UK, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in psychiatry at the Royal Free and University College School of Medicine, London. He is the author of many journals and chapters on psychosomatic disorders.